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huffle-ego:

dr-skazka:

c2mona:

as-lovely-as-she-deactivated202:

Thought this might help

NWOFHSKS NO WONDER WHEN I SEND HEARYS THINGS GET EATEN TUMBKR IM JIST TRYING TO SHOW MY LOVE SMH

@huffle-puff-ego

Found this and thought I might take ya on it since we all know the struggle of asks getting eaten

^^^^ thank you for finding this!

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kaiowut99:

kaiowut99:

…jigglypuff-in-space-dammit is Tumblr doing this dumb update for real this time why

lol so the workaround from the last time this was pushed as a trial still works atm: if you go to your blog page and try to reblog a post of yours but close it out, you can get your dash looking like normal. rb save a friend until xkit saves us

mfw when apparently this no longer works

kaiowut99:

…jigglypuff-in-space-dammit is Tumblr doing this dumb update for real this time why

lol so the workaround from the last time this was pushed as a trial still works atm: if you go to your blog page and try to reblog a post of yours but close it out, you can get your dash looking like normal. rb save a friend until xkit saves us

authoratmidnight:

sans–seraph:

hazeldomain:

authoratmidnight:

So apparently I’ve been opted in to tumblr beta or, something.

I hate it.

Firstly, I’m stuck in eternal scrolling mode, I CANNOT find the option to turn that off. If I wanted eternal scrolling I’d be on the mobile app.

Second, while they have, decent I guess, selection of colours, someone forgot to tell them that you need to alter the colours of EVERYTHING when you have different colour layout options.

yeah I can totally read those links guys :| Dark grey on desaturated blue is unreadable. And I really don’t like having to stop and highlight things just to read them.

Third, I cannot access xkit anymore (except, for some reason, on my activity page) and I hate it.

If you go to the desktop version on the top of the page is a toggle to turn this off. At least, it’s there on my computer.

There is, but unfortunately it’ll toggle itself back on. Because Tumblr, I guess. 

Thankfully xkit is busting it’s ass to make the blue hellsite usable again! 

I mean, there apparently was the option to toggle it off when they ran this beta in the past, but it sure as hell doesn’t exist for us getting opted in now.

Trust me, I’ve looked.

No off switch. I’ve been forcefully opted in and tumblr won’t let me out.

Yeah, there’s no off switch this time, unless they made it blend with the background on purpose…

However, I did just come across this workaround! Should hopefully work until New Xkit saves us permanently~ 

mittensmorgul:

I was tempted to just type “it sucks.” And while that is an objective analysis, it’s not exactly helpful. I’ve sent several requests to @staff and @support to restore my account to the old tumblr dashboard format, and received the same automated reply twice now. I’ll copy/paste it here so everyone is on the same page:

(lol, I had to go back and edit this, because apparently the beta version doesn’t display block quotes on the dash. So I’ve also put the block quotes in italics… hopefully it’ll display properly… note after editing: nope, it doesn’t display italics either… how the heck am I supposed to differentiate quoted text? I’ll start each quoted bit with an asterisk, I guess…)

*Thanks for reaching out about the beta dashboard.

*We’re currently testing it out, and your account seems to have been selected to take part in the test. Thanks for your patience while we work on it! At this time there is not a way to opt out of testing. You may see your Tumblr experience return to normal as we continue testing.

WE CAN ONLY HOPE.

*In the meantime, check out some of the new features available only in the beta dashboard:

OKAY TUMBLR, IF YOU INSIST, though I would MUCH rather have back all the functionality I personally invested into this website through xkit… you know… making the site ACTUALLY FUNCTIONAL. Let’s see what this beta version has given me instead of functionality:

*Change Palettes: Go to the person icon, then click “Change Palette.” You’ll find the classic Tumblr blue, dark mode, and a few other color palettes for your dash.

So I tried out all the color palettes. In addition to the ones mentioned here, there’s one that’s trying to look like a green screen terminal that gives me flashbacks to the early 80′s. There’s a reason we stopped using green screen terminals… Another one is “canary yellow.” It’s very yellow. The “classic tumblr” isn’t actually classic tumblr… all the post boxes are dark blue with grey type, not white with black type. And all the other colors are the insanely bright fluorescent of the new Dark Blue standard tumblr scheme. Which means links are practically invisible unless I highlight them. It’s migraine inducing. The one theme with a light colored background is called “Concrete” or “Cement” or something like that and even that only works for about half an hour before the migraine aura really kicks in. I just want my Old Blue via xkit back. You know, what tumblr actually used to look like. I don’t want any of these horrible color palettes. None of them work for me.

*The new “meatballs” menu: This is where you can copy the post link, unfollow the Tumblr who made or reblogged the post, or report a violation to our Community Guidelines.

I could do all of this from the user menus with xkit, too. I don’t regularly report violations or have the urge to block people I have chosen to follow. Why on earth would I want to do any of this? And why would I want these features located directly beside the post link copy feature? 

You know what I do miss? I miss the xkit timestamps feature. I didn’t have to hover dangerously close to the KILL IT WITH FIRE meatballs menu in order to see when a post was made, and in this era of disinformation and misinformation spreading around this site faster than Covid-19, being able to see when a post was ORIGINALLY created is a far more useful feature than an easier way to block people. For reference: I currently have three blogs blocked. Two of them are pornbots. One is a nazi. If I don’t want someone’s content on my dash, I don’t follow them. This “feature” is entirely useless to me.

*A quick note: Pagination is not supported in this beta test, but we’re collecting feedback to send to our engineers.

THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST. This beta test might actually be tolerable if I wasn’t trapped into endless scrolling. If I could page through my dash, refreshing it every ten posts or so. You know why? Because once I scroll about 30 posts down my dash, tumblr starts overheating my laptop under the load of ALL THOSE POSTS. Things start malfunctioning– it takes longer and longer to load new posts the farther I scroll. And the keyboard navigation (both page down and hitting J to advance to the next post, and even just using the down arrow to scroll as I read a long post) freeze and stop functioning. One of my laptop fans has actually begun to malfunction.

You know why this wasn’t a problem on the old version? If the data load got to heavy, I could open a post in a new tab, click view on dash with xkit, and voila! Brand new tab! I could close the malfunctioning tab and everything would be refreshed to normal! But without pagination, THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Also, after reblogging a few posts, the beta version of this site breaks, and doesn’t open a post tab to add commentary or even tags. It just… reblogs the untagged post with no warning whatsoever. You know… that’s really really not cool. I tag EVERYTHING. Well, almost everything. The tags are the only way to keep track of the 40k+ posts on my blog. And warn people that I am posting potential spoilers, or other specific content. It’s REALLY inconvenient to have to either immediately go to my blog to edit the post and add tags, or even comments. The alternative is to scroll up to open individual posts I want to reblog in a new tab, and then reblog directly there. Ironically enough, THOSE pages actually open with xkit installed, and everything (surprise!) functions perfectly there.

It’s perfectly reasonable to understand why this specific issue has limited the number of posts I reblog. Reblogging content should not be this much of a hassle. Creators have been complaining for a while that reblogs have drastically slowed down, and I think making it even more annoying and difficult to reblog posts will not help this problem.

Also, with xkit enabled, there’s a function that auto-loads images as you scroll, so the images are always visible BEFORE they appear on screen. I don’t have to look at the colored boxes and wonder if this is a post I’ve already seen or something I should sit and wait for. Don’t even think about watching tumblr videos. Loading priority is given to the ads that you cannot pause or dismiss, so that video loads and plays in choppy two second bursts instead of being given priority. Since that’s the content I am actually here to consume, it kinda makes me want to do the opposite of patronizing anyone who advertises here with graphically intense ads. And then when you scroll away, with xkit, gifs and videos you’ve scrolled past STOP loading and playing, which I think might be contributing to the intensity of the resource hogging that’s literally melting down my laptop.

And for reference, I have a pretty decent little gaming laptop. A blogging platform shouldn’t be driving it to the brink of frying itself. I didn’t realize just how much xkit worked to streamline this and provide basic functionality to this site.

*And lastly, if you’re an XKit user, know that the XKit team is working hard to update things on their end to make it compatible with the beta dashboard.

And this doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what I’ve lost without xkit. And this is a really REALLY garbage response to user complaints. “Oh, yeah, sorry we made our site suck even worse, but those nice people who do our jobs for free will surely fix our garbage soon!”

Dear wonderful people at @new-xkit-extension, I love you, and I miss you, and while I wish xkit worked with this beta version I’ve been forced into living with, I truly feel for y’all who are trying to deal with this nonsense on behalf of all of us.

And to the folks at Tumblr… maybe try to just… make your site actually more like xkit. You know, actually functional. None of these special new features are useful or functional to me. I respectfully request for a fourth time to be removed from this inane beta test.

Give us OPTIONS. Let us display ALL THE TAGS without having to click a button. Let me have back my Activity+ that actually allowed me to interact with people from my dash! That showed me real-time inline notifications in a way that I could reply to with a single click! Bring me back to my column of open messaging conversation icons so I have easy access to the people I talk with throughout the day instead of closing them all every time I refresh the page. I already feel socially isolated in freaking quarantine, please stop shutting off all my avenues of communication!

Let us have pagination! I mean, maybe it wasn’t the best idea to force heavy users of this site into a beta version that doesn’t allow us to opt out until your engineers had actually figured out how to make it work in a very basic way.

*Let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with!

YES. PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS BETA TEST NOW. I have let you know exactly what I want from this site. I just want it to ACTUALLY WORK. For someone who spends 12+ hours a day on this site, this beta test version is NONFUNCTIONAL. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO OPT OUT. I AM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU. I WILL ACTUALLY PAY YOU CASH MONEY TO ALLOW ME TO OPT OUT OF THIS AND GO BACK TO HAVING A FUNCTIONAL BLOG AGAIN. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!

PLEASE! 

I AM OFFICIALLY AT THE END OF MY PATIENCE FOR ENDURING THIS NIGHTMARE.

(one final quick note… I’ve only been back on my dash long enough to make the parenthetical edits– i.e. adding italics that don’t display and then adding the asterisks at the beginning of each section of quoted text, and already my laptop is overheating again. For reference, I originally typed this entire post from within my tumblr inbox page– which still functions normally with xkit– and spent over an hour on it. My laptop was fine the entire time. Clearly the issue is this beta version of the website. I will never forgive tumblr if y’all fry my literal only portal to the outside world at this time. PUT ME BACK TO NORMAL NOW. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING AND ENTIRELY UNACCEPTABLE. Thanks)

(oops apparently i lied… when the asterisks and the previous final note failed to display, I thought that seemed suspicious, and realized that I literally needed to refresh my entire dash in order to see edited changes. Funny how xkit enabled me to do that in real time, which is just another bit of functionality I’ve lost with this beta program. Please guys, this is really, really not working for me at all, just put it back.)

bronwynn:

i emailed tumblr about this beta bullshit and they replied pretty fast:

Hello again,

There’s one more thing I forgot to mention: We are running a special test today, through which the beta can’t be switched off. This effects only a small portion of our users, but it’s possible you were selected to participate. If you don’t see the toggle to turn the beta on and off, this is most likely the reason.

Thanks for your patience while we work on this! You may see your Tumblr experience return to normal as we continue testing.

Thanks again,

Markus

prince-chazzton:

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ryo-asukas-crybaby:

WHAT THE FUCK TUMBLR????

(via ryo-asukas-crybaby-deactivated2)

Also, me @ staff for breaking Japanese text in blog titles

kristoffbjorgman:

transgirlnausicaa:

if you go to a general tag

and replace the highlighted bit with a date/time in unix code

you can go to a specific date/time in any tag.

i made the horrible decision to venture back into the Frozen tag around October 2013 and oh boy nostalgia has blinded me to how bad it actually was back then

(via nerdgasrnz)

taimatrolls:

Ok so, replies are back and:

• It seem like not everyone has the update yet.
• You can reply multiple times to same post.
  
• You can reply to your own post (but it won’t show up in your notes)
  
• You can only reply to the original posts - not reblogs.
• If you have xKit’s One Click Reply-extension and Classic Notification-extension you’ll be able to reply to replies by clicking as it shows up on your dash (if no Classic Notification, you can reach it by going to your notes-widget).
  
• Since your replies to yourself won’t show up in notes you can’t reply to your self-replies this way.
• You got 3 choices as for who can reply to your posts:
• Everyone
• Ppl you follow + ppl who’s been following you for 1 week+
• Ppl you follow
• You can’t turn off replies completely
• Reblogs with comments and replies alike show up in little speech bubbles in notes if you click on a post’s notes. (The notes got a new look in general too it seem.)
• You can only reply to ppl who already got the update.
• Replies can’t be deleted.
• Holding in Shift while you click Enter/Return will let you make line breaks while replying to a post, clicking Enter/Return without Shift on the other hand sends your Reply.
• Letter count seem to be 475.

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Tumblr screwed the pooch on things again didn’t they